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Dick Vermeil as coach for the Eagles only won 1 game in 6 tries against the Cowboys at Philadelphia (but he won also the game that mattered the most, the 1980 NFC Championship game).

Randy Moss had 10 touchdown receptions of more than 40 yards in 1998 (his rookie year).

Roy Green had 7 touchdown receptions of at least 45 yards in 1984.
Cliff Branch had 7 touchdown receptions of at least 40 yards in 1976.

Chip Myers played in 1968 for the Alabama Hawks of the Continental Football League, then went to play eight seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals.

IIRC Steve Schubert, a WR/KR who played for the Chicago Bears fom 1975-1979, played in the ACFL.

Eric Swann played for the Bay State Titans of Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1990, and from there he was the 6th overall selection of the 1991 NFL Draft.

I am gladly surprised that Mike Kenn made it. Although I believe he won't get elected this year (and maybe never) he deserves to advance. William Andrews and Gerald Riggs had great seasons with him blocking.

I was in a situation that in that week I had to travel due to work, so I was unable to save the posts. It's a shame that
a lot of quality information apparenly is lost, but I hope that the topics of the posts than couldn't be saved be discussed again: I"ll try to start some of them.

It's interesting that Curtis and Hanburger played for the same 14 seasons and ended as teammates for their final two (Curtis replaced Hanburger in 1977 when he was injured).

I think they can win a game, the 2007 Dolphins and the 1980 Saints are examples of teams that won their only victory of the season late on the year.

By the way, what about the 2008 Lions? IMHO they were worst than this year Raiders.

When you see the teams that Grant coached north of the border, they had many NFL quality players like QB Ken Ploen, RB Leo Lewis, T Frank Rigney, DE Herb Gray and DT Buddy Tinsley. All of them are inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and at one time were drafted by NFL clubs.

One similar catch I do remember was in a strike-replacement Monday Night game in 1987 between the 49ers and Giants. NY wide receiver Lewis Bennett caught 46-yard TD pass in the endzone like your grand- nephew. I'm searching for the video, but in this link it is quoted: http://bleacherreport.com/arti...